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by travis86 1849 days ago
I also find this interesting. Should the data structure really the primary entity though? One can imagine the same data being organized in different data structures with different performance characteristics, functionality, etc. What if an App node wants to alter the data structure. Any other App node that is dependent on the data from a different node will then have to be rewritten.

What one wants is the ability to query the data of another program and send external commands to that program to alter the data. The data structure itself is somewhat irrelevant, don't you think?

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Kind of why everything was a text file in good old Unix?